Katrine Bratterud is on the verge of finishing a spell in drug rehab. One evening celebrating her success at the shore of a lake she senses that she is not alone. In the dim early morning light she sees a naked man approaching from out of the woods…The discovery of Katrine’s corpse the following day brings police officers Gunnarstranda and Frolich onto the case and into a world of secrets and lies that stretches back generations. Katrine’s past as a prostitute makes her easy prey to a series of men, who immediately become suspects – and victims. In a world of secrets can the Oslo Detectives find out the truth about these grisly murders in time before the killer strikes again…?

The Man in the Window is the next instalment in K. O. Dahl’s Oslo police mysteries: a brilliant thriller with the same narrative drive and sardonic tone that distinguished The Fourth Man.

It is Friday the thirteenth, and with the Norwegian capital enveloped in freezing cold, seventy-nine-year-old Reidar Folke Jesperson passes what will be the last day of his life.

In the early hours of the following morning he is found stabbed to death in his shop, his naked body exposed in the shop’s window, a red string tied around his neck, and three crosses and a number – 195 – written across his chest.

Police officers Gunnarstranda and Frolich – the team who were so deeply embroiled in the search for The Fourth Man – are called to the scene. Questions of love and betrayal, loyalty and guilt consume the investigation, just as they fill the private lives of the investigators, as the two men uncover a world where victims, perpetrators and even police officers are haunted by the past, still trying to cope with the dark memories of the Nazi occupation of the country.

The first in a gripping series of contemporary detective novels from a new star on the Faber Crime list.

In the course of a routine police raid Detective Inspector Frank Frolich of the Oslo Police saves the lovely Elizabeth Faremo from getting inadvertently caught in crossfire. When he runs into her again some weeks later, apparently coincidentally, they begin an affair. By the time he learns that she is the sister of Johnny Faremo, wanted member of a larceny gang, it is already too late.

Then in the middle of the night Frolich receives a phone call. A young guard has been killed in the course of an attempted break-in. Meanwhile, Elizabeth has vanished from Frolich’s bed. Arriving at the crime scene, he learns that Faremo’s gang are chief suspects. Yet Elizabeth has produced an alibi for her brother. Suspected, suspended, and blindly in love, Frolich must find out if he is being used before his life unravels beyond repair.